List of Rimcollians
The following is a list of some of the prominent alumni of Rashtriya Indian Military College, Dehradun, India. All students who graduate from this school are called Rimcollians.
Chief of Army Staff
- General K.S. Thimayya
- General G.G. Bewoor
- General Vishwa Nath Sharma
- General Sundararajan Padmanabhan
- General Gul Hasan, Commander-in-Chief, Pakistan Army
Chief of Air Staff
- Air Chief Marshal N.C. Suri
- Air Marshal Asghar Khan, PAF
- Air Marshal Nur Khan, PAF
- Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa
Vice Chief of Army Staff
- Lt General S. K. Singh, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, ADC & Administrative Member, Armed Forces Tribunal
- Lt General Chandi Prasad Mohanty PVSM,AVSM,SM,VSM is a General Officer in the Indian Army.
Vice Chief of Air Staff
- Air Marshal Vinod Patney, SYSM, PVSM, AVSM, VrC, ADC, Ex-VCAS & Ex-AOC-in-C Western Air Command[1]
GOC-in-C & GOC
- Lt. General Premindra Singh Bhagat, PVSM, VC, GOC-in-C Central Command
- Lt. General K.P. Candeth, GOC-in-C Western Command, Famous as the liberator of Goa
- Lt. General Joginder Singh Dhillon, Padma Bhushan, GOC-in-C Central Command
- Lt. General Chandi Prasad Mohanty, AVSM, SM, VSM.
- Lt. General Bikram Singh, GOC XV Corps killed in the 1963 Poonch Indian Air Force helicopter crash
- Lt.General Khwaja Wasiuddin.HPK.SPK Commander II Corps. Pakistan Army.
- Lieutenant General Nav Kumar Khanduri AVSM, VSM
AOC-in-C & AOC
- Air Marshal Balakrishnan Suresh, PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC, AOC-in-C Western Air Command and Southern Air Command
Adjutant General
- Major General Hira Lal Atal
- Lt. General M.M. Lakhera, PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Ex - Governor of Mizoram, Ex- Lt. Governor of Pondicherry, & Ex- Lt. Governor of Andaman & Nicobar Islands (additional charge).
- Major General Karam Singh, PVSM, SM, Dy Adjutant General
Engineer-in-Chief
- Lt General Sahabzada Yaqub Khan (Pakistan Army)
- Major General Muhammad Anwar Khan (Pakistan Army)
- Lt Gen M.A. Zaki
- Lt Gen Manvendra Singh, PVSM, AVSM, VSM (Ex- GOC 5 Mtn Div & Ex-GOC Delhi Area)
- Maj General Jaganath Rao Bhonsle
- Burhan-ud-Din
- Maj General Shah Nawaz Khan
Gallantry awards
Victoria Cross
- Lt Gen Premindra Singh Bhagat, PVSM, VC
Distinguished Service Order
- Gen Kodandera Subayya Thimayya, DSO
- Maj Gen Thakur Mahadeo Singh, DSO
- Brig Vidya Dhar Jayal, DSO
Param Vir Chakra
Vir Chakra
- Lt Gen M.A. Zaki
Civilian awards
Padma Vibhushan
- General K.S. Thimayya
Padma Bhushan
Padma Shri
- Lt General M.A. Zaki
- Lt General K.P. Candeth
Sports
- Ritwik Bhattacharya, a world top 50 Squash player
Ministers
- Maj General Shah Nawaz Khan, Minister of Railways, Central Government
- Maj General J.K. Bhonsle, Minister of Rehabilitation, Central Government
- Sahabzada Yaqub Khan, Foreign Minister, Pakistan
- Naseerullah Babar, Interior Minister, Pakistan
Diplomats and Civil servants
- Shaharyar Khan, Foreign Secretary, Head of Pakistan's Diplomatic Corps
- Ashwani Kumar, Former Director CBI, Governor of Nagaland (21 March 2013 – 27 June 2014)
- Rajiv Ratan, IPS, Additional Director General of Police, Telangana State
- Lt Gen MM Lakhera, Lt Governor Puducherry and Governor of Mizoram, PVSM, AVSM, VSM
Authors and Academics
- Maj Gen Ashok Mehta, Author & Commentator
- Maj Gen Dipankar Banerjee, Author & Commentator
References
- ^ "Air Marshal Vinod Patney". Archived from the original on 15 November 2014. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
- Where Gallantry is Tradition: Saga of Rashtriya Indian Military College, By Bikram Singh, Sidharth Mishra, Contributor Rashtriya Indian Military College, Published 1997 by Allied Publishers, Military education, 232 pages, ISBN 81-7023-649-5